“What frustrated me was that we were so dominant in the game. It was there for the taking,’’ he said.

“I would have been frustrated even with a point. The Boro fans were becoming frustrated and in the space of two minutes, we were two goals down. Poor goals.

“We conceded the corner very poorly from a throw-in and then we didn’t defend the corner properly, then we conceded straight from a throw-in.

“It is a killer for us. It happened against Bournemouth, conceding one and then two and three.

“You have got to stay stronger. You have a setback and 1-0 is not the end of the world. It is not what you want but it is not the end of the world.

“Like we did at Doncaster, when we were 1-0 down, we changed the game and went and won it.

“If you give yourselves big mountains to climb away from home, you are going to struggle to get a result.

“We got back in it at Middlesbrough with an unbelievable goal and we had other chances over the course of the game.

“The third one they scored, it was just one of those errors. Two players who did really well together as a partnership didn’t deal with the ball properly and you hold your hands up (Robinson and Thorpe collided going for the same ball, leaving it to drop free for Lee Tomlin).

“They will probably never do it again. Unfortunately for us we got punished with it.

“I have said to the players – and I think they feel the same way – it was probably the worst we felt after any game this season because we know there was three points there for us, the all important three points.”